The
Tribes Ascend Forums have a response from Hi-Rez's Todd Harris to
an Open Letter To Hi-Rez on reddit about patching Tribes Ascend,
since the free-to-play shooter was last updated four months ago today (thanks
PC Gamer). Todd explains that they will continue to support the game's
servers, but the company's priority for the next six months is SMITE, and
that updating their Tribes multiplayer shooter is still not their top priority
after that. The implication is there may be no further updates for the game
going forward, as their post-SMITE plan is a Global Agenda sequel, and
though no one is working on Tribes Ascend 2, a sequel would probably take
precedence over a patch as well. Here's word:

There are no major dev
updates planned for Tribes: Ascend in the next six months.

For the next six months our primary development focus is SMITE. Beyond that it
is GA2. And beyond that a TA2 would be more likely than a major update to TA;
but to be clear no devs are currently working toward TA2.

Per the development blog on our forums, the recent TA work has been Kate
developing some additional maps. If time allows then these new TA maps (along
with some bug-fixes) would be finalized and deployed but no committed date yet.

We continue to support TA servers, online community events, tournaments with
prizing, bringing Tribes to offline events like recent RTX and upcoming
QuakeCon, and live-streaming.